The Sean O'Brien administration was supposed to be a breath of fresh air for the Teamsters. And its victory of UPS in getting a sweet contract without a strike was a good sign. But now O'Brien is meeting with Donald Trump and....why would a labor...
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On January 19, 1915, armed thugs hired by the Williams & Clark fertilizer plant in Roosevelt, New Jersey (now known as Carteret) killed two striking workers. The Roosevelt Massacre is.
On January 15, 1964, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters signed the National Master Freight Agreement, creating a standard for conditions of its workers around the country. This was the peak.
I am glad the Times took on the issue of the shock union leaders have felt over the grassroots effort to get union leadership to support the cause of Palestine. Thoughts follow: “Why are we here?” said Brandon Mancilla, a leader with the United Automobile...
On January 7, 1919, the maritime workers in Buenos Aires voted to go on the strike. The culmination of years of radicalism, the state forces of Argentina responded by intense.
Pennsylvania --- 1938-Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Steel workers in front of CIO Headquarters. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS I am super happy to be part of the new podcast on the history.
I was struck in the post from last week on strikes in 2023 how many people in comments asserted that a strong economy leads to more strikes. This evidently is taken as almost a given by many economists. The problem with this assertion is that...
I was one of the people interviewed for this ABC piece on the rise in strikes this year. Greg Iwinski, a late-night TV writer, walked off the job this year.
I was quite surprised when the United Auto Workers leadership came out to demand a ceasefire to Israel's war-crimes in Gaza. This is a long ways from the AFL-CIA days.
One of the most interesting trends in contemporary labor is the rise of undergraduate worker organizing. The resident assistants, she thought in 2021, needed a union. This past March, they voted overwhelmingly to have one. Contract negotiations began Friday, capping a week when residence life...
The Teamsters are pretty well sick of Anheuser-Busch's bullshit: Teamsters working nationwide at Anheuser-Busch have voted by an overwhelming 99 percent to authorize a strike. The resounding vote allows the.
Children are so small and supple, they make the best workers on dangerous jobs. And what's a few dead Guatemalan kids...... The New York Times spoke with more than 100.